Dmitri Williams

Biography

Dmitri Williams is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Annenberg Program on Online Communities (APOC). His research focuses on the social and economic impacts of new media, with a focus on online games. Professor Williams was the first researcher to use online games for experiments, and was also the first to undertake longitudinal research on games. He is currently working on tests of social science theories on a large scale in virtual worlds. His work has also been featured in several press accounts, most recently on NPR, and in publications including The Economist, Time, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Sun-Times and others.

Sessions

• Networks, Gold, and Code: New Findings from the Virtual World Exploratorium
  Friday, June 12

  11:00–12:30

  Browsing Library (2nd floor, West Central)